drinking

[Fifty]

Too many rum horror stories for myself. I can't even smell the stuff without that strange sugar-cane smell making me want to throw up.

I LOVE the smell of rum! Perhaps there is a bad memory associated with it for you I would not ever get drunk with rum, though, just drink a couple of rums and coke. Getting drunk with hard alcohol tends to make me feel it less, and puke more. Go beer!


Here's a drink that isn't for the feint of heart (not to mention you can't make it anymore these days). Any of you who have worked at banquets at restaurants will know those little heaters that you put under chafing dishes to keep food hot. They are little canisters with a liquid in them and a wick coming out the top. Nowadays they are mixed with other things to make this impossible, but they used to be made simply out of PURE ALCOHOL. What drunks would do is, buy a few of these, break them open, and pour them into a glass with orange pop. It was called orange crush and it was something like 400 proof, something ridiculously high like that. People died from it!

 

[King PJ]

thats messed uop, i though 80 proof was bad hahaha
damn i wish i had more

 

[Immortal]

Here's a drink that isn't for the feint of heart (not to mention you can't make it anymore these days). Any of you who have worked at banquets at restaurants will know those little heaters that you put under chafing dishes to keep food hot. They are little canisters with a liquid in them and a wick coming out the top. Nowadays they are mixed with other things to make this impossible, but they used to be made simply out of PURE ALCOHOL.

How exactly does proof work? The Everclear we would buy in University was 190 proof, highly explosive. The liquor store owner told us that alcohol can't naturally stay in percentages above 95%, Ive never bothered to check the facts.

 

[BasketCase]

One unit of "proof" is half a percent of alcohol. A liquid that is 50 proof is 25% alcohol. Pure alcohol is 200 proof. And @Monk: 400 proof is impossible in this universe.

But yes, these days you can't use the alcohol in those heaters; there's a poisonous chemical added to that alcohol (and chemically bonded to the alcohol molecule so you can't distill out the poison) to purposely make the alcohol undrinkable. This is called denatured alcohol, and companies do that so that they don't have to pay some federal alcoholic beverage tax to distribute the stuff.

 

[Fifty]

One unit of "proof" is half a percent of alcohol. A liquid that is 50 proof is 25% alcohol. Pure alcohol is 200 proof. And @Monk: 400 proof is impossible in this universe.

yea I put "or something like that" specifically becasue I could not in any way remember the exact number, so I just popped up 400.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Chemically, anything up to 100% is perfectly possible. You don't get that high by normal destillation processes tho - IIRC the max is about 95%.

I don't get why people's spelling skills go to hell when they're drunk. My motorics are fairly erratic at the best of times, but before they're so messed up as not to be able to hit the right key most of the time I'm lying prone somewhere anyway.

 

[BassDude726]

Interesting story actually... my power went out for 4 hrs tonight so I decided to drink the beer in my fridge while it was still cold. I had 8. I have to go back and proofread all my posts to avoid looking like an idiot now.

 

[The Person]

Why do people want to get drunk in the first place?

 

[BassDude726]

Well, Person, it's a great way to stave off boredom. Also, it makes women a lot more fun to hang around with. And personally, I find it relaxing, and Guinness IMO is the nectar of the gods.

 

[The Person]

I'm probably asking because I'm not such a big drinker. Go ahead and drink if you wish, as long you don't overdo it.

 

[BassDude726]

I envy you. I'm a big believer in genetic inheritance, and every member of my extended family is a raging alcoholic. That's probably where I get it. I'd save loads of cash if i didn't drink (and if i didn't smoke too, but hey, it's more addictive than herion, what am I supposed to do?)

 

[The Last Conformist]

Not start in the first place.

Some of my grandfather's brothers drank themselves to death. I suppose I'm in the genetically predisposed club.

 

[CurtSibling]

I frown on intoxicants - Drinking is not for me.

 

[Scuffer]

I haven't been truly smashed in ages, maybe even a year. Been pleasantly drunk an awful lot this year though. I like gin and tonic, but at this time of the year I am moving to port, whisky and red wine. Not altogether though. Oh, and 'cooking lager' when I'm in the pub

 

[morses1]

Usually a beer drinker, but when I drink liquor, I drink Bourbon (Maker's Mark) ... maybe because I'm a native of Kentucky ...

 

[Stapel]

I usually have beer or wine with dinner. And I really enjoy Single Islay Malts.

 

[batteryacid]

I prefer to drink single malts - Ardmore and Tallisker are my favourites, sometimes good Cognacs; when I go out I drink preferrably beer- Wieselburger , Stiegl or Murauer (the Märzen variants) , Hirter Morchl (is a dark one) ,Edelweiß (is a Weizen Beer); now, during winter some good Bock beers are brewed (the murauer bock is really good- a bit strong perehaps with 7.3% ;-)

So: Hail to all Single Malts and good Autrian beers! (poor are those who don´t know them)

p.s.:All of those beers are some classes better than those Heineken , Bud or Amstel beers you get everywhere

 

[thetrooper]

Yagermiester is my favorite, although I dont think yagermiester is the correct spelling.

Jägermeister is the correct spelling.

And for me: Dimple, Macallan, Glenlivet... I could go on forever.

 

[Mr. Blonde]

Nobody mentioned a Williams pear spirit yet? There is nothing in comparison to that (single malt spirit with the taste of burnt turf....shudder )

And, yes Hail to good middle European beer

 

[storealex]

And personally, I find it relaxing, and Guinness IMO is the nectar of the gods.

Finally a fellow Guinness drinker!

I don't like liquer too much, only if Im bored and wanna get drunk quickly, which I kinda stopped because I work all the time. But beer... uhmm.. that's pleasure for ya! A good beer simply tastes like you've been kissed by Afroditte.